The Gilded Age Season 3 premiere features the artist John Singer Sargent, creator of the infamous Madame X painting, but what ...

It inspired a blockbuster museum exhibition and the new season of The Gilded Age. But why was the 1884 portrait "Madame X" so ...

HBO’s high-society drama just introduced the portraitist who knew how to flatter the one percent better than anyone.

"John Singer Sargent loved people, and it shows," said Lisa Yin Zhang in Hyperallergic. Born to American parents who'd become cosmopolitan wanderers, the painter was only 18 when he moved from ...

NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Sargent and Paris” exhibition builds to a single moment, a single painting and a single scandal in the life of the young American artist. In ...

John Singer Sargent, “Claude Monet, painting, by the edge of a wood,” 1885. (Tate) John Singer Sargent/Presented by Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs Ormond through the Art Fund 1925.

One of the great painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, John Singer Sargent made his fortune and reputation as a portrait painter of beautiful women and influential men.

(Photo courtesy of the Met) Center: John Singer Sargent, Madame Ramón Subercaseaux, 1880. (Public domain/via Wikimedia) Right: John Singer Sargent, Dr. Pozzi at Home, 1881, oil on canvas.